“What fear does the Popular Party have to debate?” asked Pedro Sánchez yesterday, due to the delays he attributes to Alberto Núñez Feijóo to set a date and time for an electoral face-to-face. The explanation, in his opinion, is obvious: “The impossibility of being able to explain this unfortunate mess that we are seeing of the exchange of votes for rights”, he denounced the negotiations and agreements of the PP and the extreme right of Vox in autonomous communities and town halls
Sánchez warned that the PP is sharing governments, institutions and positions with Vox at the expense of “the rights of women and the LGBTI group, and many other setbacks that are being considered in cities, towns and autonomous communities, where combine the PP with the ultra-right”.
“No society moves forward by going backwards”, pointed out the president of the Spanish Government during the event he held in Ferraz with the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, to deploy his electoral proposals in the matter. “That’s why we ask for the majority of citizens’ trust, so that Spain continues to move forward for four more years, and we don’t go back five, fifteen, twenty or fifty years, as the right and the ultra-right demand”, claimed Sánchez.
The leader of the PSOE defended, in this sense, a Spain that is progressing and that “does not give way to its instincts of revenge, as we see in some of the speeches of hate that the ultra-right is raising, and which are assumed in the first person by PP”.
“You can’t repeal what works, Spain can’t advance by copying setbacks, but rights, conquests, and consolidation of these rights”, he asked, referring to the program of the right.
La Moncloa and Ferraz are following with special attention the fight that the PP and Vox are staging in Extremadura, and point out the “contradictions” of Feijóo, following the veto of the popular candidate, María Guardiola, on the far right. “I cannot let into the government those who deny gender violence, those who are dehumanizing immigrants and unfurl a tarp and throw an LGBTI flag in the bin”, justified Guardiola.
But the socialists warn that “with Extremadura, the PP will not be able to cover the Valencian Community”, where, on the other hand, the popular candidate, Carlos Mazón, sealed a government agreement with Vox in a three and nothing. And they emphasize that the PP will not be able to overshadow its Valencian pact with the Extremadura clash. To begin with, they say that the leader of Vox, Santiago Abascal, plans to attend the constituent session of the Cortes next Monday, in which his party will assume the presidency of the Valencian chamber. A position, by the way, that Guardiola also proposed to Vox in the Assembly of Extremadura and for which, on the other hand, they warn, they did not care much about the denial of macho violence by the ultra-right.
The PSOE, in addition, demanded yesterday from the Electoral Board of Madrid to urge Vox to remove the tarpaulin deployed at the confluence of Alcalá and Goya streets, and to open a sanctioning file. In this electoral propaganda, the ultra-right incites to “throw in the trash” the feminist movement or the LGBTI flag. And the PSOE asks to send these contents to the Prosecutor’s Office, “for the possible commission of crimes”.
At the same time, Ferraz’s organizing secretary, Santos Cerdán, yesterday sent letters to the communication groups that requested to organize electoral debates -RTVE, Atresmedia, Mediaset and Prisa-, in which he accepted all their invitations. “We said yes to all the debates”, highlighted Sánchez, who continues to put pressure on the leader of the PP, even for these debates to be held with Feijóo’s chair empty.
“The PP continues to peel the daisy”, criticized Sánchez, following Feijóo’s lack of concreteness to accept face-to-face elections. And the president even allowed himself a joke: “It feels like for Feijóo the debates are like gyms in January…, you sign up, but you never go”.
